The medieval revival and historical topographic representations in The Byzantine monuments of Serbia

Abstract

The work of Felix Kanitz titled Serbiens byzantinische Monumente. Gezeichnet und beschrieben von F. Kanitz [The Byzantine Monuments of Serbia. Drawn and Described by F. Kanitz] published in German and Serbian in 1862 has never been subjected to more detailed analysis from the perspective of art history. The need for the contextualization of illustrated books and their relation to the European culture of historicism, to nature and landscape, as well as their relationship with various artistic phenomena of the mid-nineteenth century, demands the placement of Kanitz?s book into the wider cultural framework of the epoch.